American empire and the politics of meaning : elite political cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico during U.S. colonialism
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American empire and the politics of meaning : elite political cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico during U.S. colonialism
（Politics, history, and culture）
Duke University Press, 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-372) and index
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: hbk ISBN 9780822342113
内容説明
When the United States took control of the Philippines and Puerto Rico in the wake of the Spanish-American War, it declared that it would transform its new colonies through lessons in self-government and the ways of American-style democracy. In both territories, U.S. colonial officials built extensive public school systems, and they set up American-style elections and governmental institutions. The officials aimed their lessons in democratic government at the political elite: the relatively small class of the wealthy, educated, and politically powerful within each colony. While they retained ultimate control for themselves, the Americans let the elite vote, hold local office, and formulate legislation in national assemblies. American Empire and the Politics of Meaning is an examination of how these efforts to provide the elite of Puerto Rico and the Philippines a practical education in self-government played out on the ground in the early years of American colonial rule, from 1898 until 1912. It is the first systematic comparative analysis of these early exercises in American imperial power.
The sociologist Julian Go unravels how American authorities used "culture" as both a tool and a target of rule, and how the Puerto Rican and Philippine elite received, creatively engaged, and sometimes silently subverted the Americans' ostensibly benign intentions. Rather than finding that the attempt to transplant American-style democracy led to incommensurable "culture clashes," Go assesses complex processes of cultural accommodation and transformation. By combining rich historical detail with broader theories of meaning, culture, and colonialism, he provides an innovative study of the hidden intersections of political power and cultural meaning-making in America's earliest overseas empire.
目次
Acknowledgments ix 1. Introduction: Colonialism and Culture in the American Empire 1 Chapter 1: Tutelary Colonialism and Cultural Power 25 Chapter 2: Domesticating Tutelage in Puerto Rico 55 Chapter 3: Winning Hearts and Minds in the Philippines 93 Chapter 4: Beyond Cultural Reproduction 131 Chapter 5: Divergent Paths 173 Chapter 6: Structural Transformation in Puerto Rico 211 Chapter 7: Cultural Revaluation in the Philippines 241 Conclusion: Returning to Culture 273 Appendix 295 Notes 299 References 343 Index 373
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: pbk ISBN 9780822342298
内容説明
When the United States took control of the Philippines and Puerto Rico in the wake of the Spanish-American War, it declared that it would transform its new colonies through lessons in self-government and the ways of American-style democracy. In both territories, U.S. colonial officials built extensive public school systems, and they set up American-style elections and governmental institutions. The officials aimed their lessons in democratic government at the political elite: the relatively small class of the wealthy, educated, and politically powerful within each colony. While they retained ultimate control for themselves, the Americans let the elite vote, hold local office, and formulate legislation in national assemblies. American Empire and the Politics of Meaning is an examination of how these efforts to provide the elite of Puerto Rico and the Philippines a practical education in self-government played out on the ground in the early years of American colonial rule, from 1898 until 1912. It is the first systematic comparative analysis of these early exercises in American imperial power. The sociologist Julian Go unravels how American authorities used "culture" as both a tool and a target of rule, and how the Puerto Rican and Philippine elite received, creatively engaged, and sometimes silently subverted the Americans' ostensibly benign intentions. Rather than finding that the attempt to transplant American-style democracy led to incommensurable "culture clashes," Go assesses complex processes of cultural accommodation and transformation. By combining rich historical detail with broader theories of meaning, culture, and colonialism, he provides an innovative study of the hidden intersections of political power and cultural meaning-making in America's earliest overseas empire.
目次
Acknowledgments ix
1. Introduction: Colonialism and Culture in the American Empire 1
Chapter 1: Tutelary Colonialism and Cultural Power 25
Chapter 2: Domesticating Tutelage in Puerto Rico 55
Chapter 3: Winning Hearts and Minds in the Philippines 93
Chapter 4: Beyond Cultural Reproduction 131
Chapter 5: Divergent Paths 173
Chapter 6: Structural Transformation in Puerto Rico 211
Chapter 7: Cultural Revaluation in the Philippines 241
Conclusion: Returning to Culture 273
Appendix 295
Notes 299
References 343
Index 373
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